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17. That's pretty much what the FIRE database, which seems fairly expansive in its views, suggests

Sat Oct 30, 2021, 07:59 PM

Oct 2021

It looks like Sympthsical either has a mistaken view, a faulty memory, or a rather broad definition of what "disinvited" means. To be fair, FIRE has a similarly broad definition. They list a 'YES' for disinvited even when what actually happened was that an invited speaker was disrupted by student activists in the actual venue.

That seems to me very different than a university administration officially reneging on an invitation, as seems to have happened for this Southern babtist institution in Alabama as a result of pressure from right wing anti-choice students. As far as I can tell, no officially invited speaker was ever disinvited at UC Berkeley by any university administration. I'm sure Sympthsical or one of his respondents/comrades will have better information than me or the FIRE database on this, though.

On edit: KPFA doesn't have any connection to UC Berkeley.

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Alabama College Disinvites Historian Jon Meacham After Anti-Abortion Protest [View all] tenderfoot Oct 2021 OP

Brain-washed morons hlthe2b Oct 2021 #1

Sooooooo they weren't really serious about the importance of civil discourse?? aeromanKC Oct 2021 #2

Obviously not. Igel Oct 2021 #14

"We label anyone Diamond_Dog Oct 2021 #3

We've allowed this on our side for ages Sympthsical Oct 2021 #4

1,000,000 percent correct! jimfields33 Oct 2021 #6

Agreed! ProfessorGAC Oct 2021 #8

Yes, it's horrible when people protest great scholars like Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter tenderfoot Oct 2021 #9

They were not the only speakers Sympthsical Oct 2021 #11

And even if you don't like either of them (who does, really), rioting wasn't a good look. tenderfoot Oct 2021 #12

The FIRE database lists a number of event disruptions but no official disinvitations greenjar_01 Oct 2021 #15

They might be thinking of Bill Maher or Richard Dawkins. Dr. Strange Oct 2021 #16

That's pretty much what the FIRE database, which seems fairly expansive in its views, suggests greenjar_01 Oct 2021 #17

Maher and Dawkins were two I was thinking of. Also Horowitz and Shapiro. Sympthsical Oct 2021 #18

Neither Maher nor Dawkins were disinvited from speaking at UC Berkeley greenjar_01 Oct 2021 #19

I'm discussing the atmosphere of anti-speech Sympthsical Oct 2021 #20

Maher was not disinvited greenjar_01 Oct 2021 #21

It's a distinction without a difference Sympthsical Oct 2021 #22

Will FoxNoise pitch a fit about "Cancel Culture" over this? 11 Bravo Oct 2021 #5

their loss.....morans..... bahboo Oct 2021 #7

I was in law school there when Sarah Weddington, Roe v. Wade, spoke. mentalsolstice Oct 2021 #10

Nothing Samford University does would be unifying. LiberalFighter Oct 2021 #13